The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed. Today it is a museum in the Alamo Plaza Historic District and a part of the San Antonio Missions World Heritage Site.
The chapel of the Alamo Mission is known as the "Shrine of Texas Liberty"
This is one of the first drawings depicting the Misión San Antonio de Valero. It was created in 1838 by Mary Maverick and shows statues within the niches.
1854 drawing – The Alamo chapel would have looked something like this in the 1830s
The Fall of the Alamo, painted by Theodore Gentilz in 1844, depicts the final assault
San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in 2020. It is the most populous city in and seat of Bexar County. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States, the second-largest in the Southern United States, and the second-most populous in Texas after Houston.
Image: Downtown San Antonio view from The Tower of the Americas
Image: Alamo Mission San Antonio at Night
Image: San Antonio Riverwalk with boat tour view
Image: San Antonio, Texas (2018) 057
